I have some sympathy with both sides of this argument. Leyte is never referred to, as far as I'm aware, as anything other than a battle. If it was a campaign you'd be able to point to specific engagements, each individually named, as being the battles fought as part of that campaign. And what do you...

There's a photo of Bogatyr as re-armed in "Kreiser Bogatyr" by R M Melnikov (Gangut series), the 130mm apparently replace: (1) the turret guns (4 guns), (2) the 152mm in casemates and shields on each side (8 guns), (3) the shielded 75mm between the casemate and the endmost shielded 152mm f...

John Brooks in "Dreadnought Gunnery" has a thoroughly damning analysis of the BCF's gunnery in general and during the Run to the South i particular. Well worth reading. needless to say, 5BS had no visibility problems.

Can't help, I'm afraid, but a bit of googling shows that at some point in the past a similar question was asked by Peter K. on forum-marinearchiv.de; he's a mod there and still active according to his profile so you could always try asking whether he ever found an answer.

To add to your confusion, Russian ships had genuine turrets derived from French designs while Japanese ships had barbettes with an armoured shield over the guns, invariably (but not strictly correctly) called a turret. In the original barbette mountings, the guns were mounted on a turntable protecte...

You are all obviously fervent Christians, Buddhists, etc. who believe in either a second life or an afterlife or you wouldn't be wasting so much of this one on such a pointless argument. Every time I see this thread, a little part of me dies.

There's nothing disputed about Khartoum's loss, the Admiralty investigation ruled out enemy action or sabotage. If you have a look on the internet you'll find reports of a similar event on Kempenfelt in Sydney after WW2.

I can't say this is the most edifying debate I've ever seen, it seems to consist entirely of "Yes they did" and "No they didn't". An Italian naval staff doing its job would as a minimum have plans in place for war against (a) Britain and France (b) France alone (c) Britain alone,...